Just in case you missed it, Daft 0.6.8 was released this morning: ✨Features • feat: Allow images in prompt @colin-ho (#5466) • feat: add pre-existence checks for lance_data_sink @huleilei (#5381) • feat: Support setting

actor_udf_ready_timeout

via Env @plotor (#5426) • feat: retryable udfs @universalmind303 (#5392) • feat: Add a Bigtable data sink @desmondcheongzx (#5431) • feat: classify_image expression @universalmind303 (#5428) • feat: Add support for Metrics tab in quickstart Ray dashboard @jeevb (#5429) • feat(lance): distributed FTS index creation via Daft UDF with fragment-level parallelism @huleilei (#5236) • feat: add mimetype detection for daft.file @universalmind303 (#5411) 🐛 Bug Fixes • fix: report a more reasonable error message when select * from <some_keywords> @VOID001 (#5440) • fix: Fix async udf with

use_process

@colin-ho (#5457) • fix: Drop table error in current active session @plotor (#5439) • fix: add retry on "unable to open file" @kevinzwang (#5442) • fix: Allow publishing quickstart helm chart to GHCR @jeevb (#5437) • fix: convert num_rows to int when query count(*) from clickhouse @dujl (#5421) • fix: Actually clone the repo before publishing quickstart helm chart @jeevb (#5433) • fix: file reads for huggingface @universalmind303 (#5427) • fix: Make benchmarking Ray cluster setup commands idempotent @jeevb (#5425) • fix(lance): correct limit pushdown semantics with filters @huleilei (#5408) 🚀 Performance • perf: Call async udfs asynchronously @colin-ho (#5451) • perf: Elide shuffle for window if already partitioned @colin-ho (#5450) • perf: defer allocation when creating series from literals @universalmind303 (#5391) • perf: Double workers per udf actor handle @colin-ho (#5415) ♻️ Refactor • refactor: Make helper function for calling async python functions from rust @colin-ho (#5432) • refactor: combine sentence_transformers + transformers, and clean up … @universalmind303 (#5422) 📖 Documentation • docs: adds ai functions, ai providers, contributing, and docstrings with nav @everettVT (#5438) • docs: warning for Common Crawl dataset API instability @malcolmgreaves (#5436) • docs: update the example to access S3-compatible services @huleilei (#5405) • docs(connectors): add connector page for Lance format @huleilei (#5397) Lets give a big round of applause for all of our contributors!